The Graduate quotes

Mrs. Robinson: Would you mind walking ahead of me to the sun porch. I feel funny about coming into a dark house.Benjamin: But it's light in there.Mrs. Robinson: Please...What do you drink? Bourbon?Benjamin: Look, uh, Mrs. Robinson, I drove you home. I was glad to do it. But I have some things on my mind. Can you understand that?Mrs. Robinson: Yes.Benjamin: All right.Mrs. Robinson: What do you drink? Benjamin. I'm sorry to be this way, but I don't want to be left alone in this house.Benjamin: Why not?Mrs. Robinson: Please wait till my husband gets home.Benjamin: When is he coming back?Mrs. Robinson: I don't know. Drink?Benjamin: No. Are you always this much afraid of being alone?Mrs. Robinson: Yes.Benjamin: Well, why can't you just lock the doors and go to bed?Mrs. Robinson: I'm very neurotic. May I ask you a question? What do you think of me?Benjamin: What do you mean?Mrs. Robinson: You've known me nearly all your life. You must have formed some opinion of me.Benjamin: Well, I always thought that you were a very...nice...person.Mrs. Robinson: Did you know I was an alcoholic?Benjamin: What?Mrs. Robinson: Did you know that?Benjamin: Look, I think I should be going.Mrs. Robinson: Sit down, Benjamin.Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, if you don't mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange. Now, I'm sure that Mr. Robinson will be here any minute now and -Mrs. Robinson: No.Benjamin: What?Mrs. Robinson: My husband will be back quite late. He should be gone for several hours.Benjamin: Oh my God.Mrs. Robinson: Pardon?Ben: Oh no, Mrs. Robinson, oh no.Mrs. Robinson: What's wrong?Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you didn't - I mean, you didn't expect -Mrs. Robinson: What?Benjamin: I mean, you didn't really think that I would do something like that.Mrs. Robinson: Like what?Benjamin: What do you think?Mrs. Robinson: Well, I don't know.Benjamin: For God's sake, Mrs. Robinson, here we are, you've got me into your house. You give me a drink. You put on music, now you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours.Mrs. Robinson: So?Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson - you are trying to seduce me .... Aren't you?Mrs. Robinson: Well, no. I hadn't thought of it. I feel very flattered.Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson. Will you forgive me for what I just said?Note: the bolded line is ranked #63 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

[to Elaine] That's why I've been acting this way. I'm not like this. I hate myself like this. Listen, could you just stop crying, please?...I've had this feeling ever since I graduated. This kind of compulsion that I have to be rude all the time...It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.

[to Mrs. Robinson] Look, I like you. I wouldn't keep coming here if I didn't like you...I enjoy it. I look forward to it. It's the one thing I have to look forward to...All right, I promise, for Christ's sake, I promise never to take out Elaine Robinson...Let's not talk about it. Let's not talk at all.